Overview

Core: Supporting Information 2

Published

18 September, 2024

This week you will revise some essential concepts for scientific computing: file system organisation, file types, working directories and paths. The workshop will cover a rationale for working reproducibly, project oriented workflow, naming things and documenting your work. We will also examine some file types and the concept of tidy data.

Learning objectives

The successful student will be able to:

  • explain the organisation of files and directories in a file systems including root, home and working directories
  • explain absolute and relative file paths
  • explain why working reproducibly is important
  • know how to use a project-oriented workflow to organise work
  • be able to give files human- and machine-readable names
  • outline some common biological data file formats

Instructions

  1. Prepare

    1. 📖 Read Understanding file systems

  2. Workshop

  3. Consolidate